GREAT NEWS IN THE FIGHT TO KEEP OBSCENITY FROM OUR WV KIDS !!
HB4654...
Which removes the exemptions that permits WV schools and libraries to put obscenity in front of WV kids, is going to the Judiciary Committee.
Below is the link that gives access to the Bill's actual text.
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Text_HTML/2024_SESSIONS/RS/bills/hb4654%20intr.pdf
WE NEED TO DELUGE OUR ELECTED REPS WITH PHONE CALLS, EMAILS, LETTERS AND PERSONAL VISITS IN SUPPORT OF THIS BILL !!
WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THE ENEMY OPPOSING THIS BILL IS ALREADY POUNDING THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE !!
ASO, MORE WORK IS NECESSARY ON THE PROCESS THAT MUST WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS BILL...
1) Parent's (or the children's Legal Caretaker's) access must be insured to their kid's schools to look at and challenge, for review, what is already in our WV Schools and Libraries and what will be coming in the future.
2) A committee, in conjunction with the WV State Board of Education, will need to be created, to review and rate as Obscene or not, the books that the parents have called out. The decisions of this committee would apply to all the books of the same author and title in the state. The make up of this WV State Bd of Ed committee would have to reflect the values and ideologies, proportionately, of the Parents and Legal Caretakers of kids in the State of WV.
3) Books determined to be Obscene would need to be either stored in an area secure from all minors or removed from schools and libraries.
4) If WV Teachers/Librarians/Administrators would choose to ignore the decisions of the WV State BOE Parents/Legal Caregivers committee reviewing and rating the books, then each individual would be warned the 1st time; the result of subsequent individual disregard of the committee's findings would be that 'WV Code 61 8 A 2' would be applied.
5) A compromise could be created which forbids Middle School and younger kids any access to materials determined to be Obscene by that WV State Bd of Ed Comm, but permits access by High School kids via WRITTEN APPROVAL (which would be maintained on file), from their Parents/Legal Caretakers.
6) Human Sexuality and Physiology classes (focusing on FACTS, not feelings and desires) should be available in Middle and High Schools (appropriate to grade), with parental oversight.
7) Regarding minors, it must be codified that there is no merit, ever, for Obscenity to be declared to have 'artistic value' or 'merit' of any kind.
8) In this debate over Obscenity...It must be a given that the minimum threshold for materials or books to be classified as Obscene, is MUCH LOWER for minor children than adults.